Post-test The Result and Analysis of Second Learning Cycle

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a. Post-test

Chart 5: The Average of Students’ Reading Comprehension Score on Post-cycle Genres in Cycle 2 Based on the chart 3 above, the students’ average score on Descriptive text had a significant progress from 77 to 91. It means that the students were able to catch up the material given by the lecturer clearly. Eleven students could find all of the correct answers and the rest of the class made a single mistake only. Meanwhile, on Narrative text, the average of students’ score was 72, it rose 6 points from 66 in the previous test. None of them could answer all of the questions correctly, but they only missed one or two numbers. On Recount text, the average of students’ score also had a very significant progress from 75 to 89. It seemed that the students paid attention to the lectu rer’s second explanation. They were able to catch the idea of the passage and identified the characteristics of this genre. And for the last text type, Report, it showed that there was also a progress that it was quite significant as in Descriptive and Rec ount text. The students’ average score was 80, it rose 25 points from 55. Chart 6: The Average of Students’ Reading Comprehension © Master Program in Linguistics, Diponegoro University www.eprints.undip.ac.id Score on Post-cycle Reading Purposes in Cycle 2 The average of students’ score on reading purpose also got a specific progress. In reading to search simple information and to skim, the students’ average score was 83, 75. Three students, even, succeed to get a perfect score. They made no mistake on answering the questions in skimming and searching simple information. For the lowest ones, two students made only four mistakes in this reading purpose. While in reading for general comprehension, four students 20 were able to answer all the questions correctly. The average of students’ score in this purpose was 80, 62. This result showed that the implementation small group discussions technique was totally successful.

b. Checklist Participation in Group Discussion